Improvement in fastening- for carriage-curtains



`EPHRAIM SHEPARD,

or NEW YeRK, vN. Y.

ne/rs PamhNa. 83,555, daad ocwbefz'i, 186s.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Paltent and makng'part of the same.

To all whom 'it may conce/m:

Be it known that I, EPHRAIM SHEPARD, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and improved Curtain-Fastening for Carriages; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, ref erence being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to a new and improved -cur-v tain-fastening for carriages, whereby a curtain maybe readily fastened and unfastened, be firmly secured in position when in a fastened state, and the device admitting of being manufactured at a very small cost.

In the accompanyingisheet of drawings- Figure l is a front View of my invention.

Figure 2, a section of the same, taken in the line x x, iig. l.

Similar' letters of reference 'indicate corresponding parts.

A represents a portion of a carriage to which my invention is applied, the invention consisting of a short metal tube, B,'secured to A by means of a screw, C, which passes longitudinally through Bintothe part A of the carriage, the head of the screw bearing against ifihe outer end of the tube B. (See, more particularly,

This tube,.B, has a V-shaped slot, c, cut in it, and the portion b of the tube, at the angle of the slot, is bent or curved slightly outward, forming a spring.

D represents a portion of a carriage-curtain, which is perforated at .the proper place, and has a metallic eye,`E, itted in the perforat'on, the internal diameter of the eye being equal to the' external diameter of the tube B, so that the former n iay be fitted or shoved over the latter. i

The eye E is retained on the, tube B by the spring b, formed by the `.slot in the tube, as previously 'de-y scribed. 1

In order to slip the eye E off from the tube B, it is lnecessary that the eye be pulled directly outward in line with the tube.

A side pull on the eye would not admit of the .lat-ff tain D, all lconstructed and arranged to form a new and improved curtain-fastening, as set forth.

The above speciiication of my invention signed by me, this 15th day of May, 1868.

EPHRAIM SHEPARD. Witnesses WM. F. MCNAMARA, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

